TY - BOOK AU - Creswell, John W. TI - Qualitative inquiry and research design: choosing among five approaches SN - 1412995302 U1 - 370.72 CRE PY - 2013/// CY - London : PB - Sage Publications, KW - Social Sciences methods KW - Social sciences Methodology KW - Qualitative studies KW - Validation and evaluation KW - qualitative studies KW - Research proposal structure KW - Data anaysis KW - Data interpretation KW - codes and themes N1 - Originally published in print: 2013; Includes references; Introduction Philosophical assumptions and interpretive frameworks Designing a qualitative study Five qualitative approaches to inquiry Five different qualitative studies Introducing and focusing the study Data collection Data analysis and representation Writing a qualitative study Standards of validation and evaluation "Turning the story" and conclusion N2 - This text compares and contrasts the five major qualitative traditions: biography, case study, ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. Five actual journal articles are reproduced in the appendix as examples of the different research designs ER -